A simple audit and feedback mechanism can successfully reduce overuse of musculoskeletal imaging by General Practitioners (GPs) at a national scale, saving precious health system resources, and saving patients’ time, money, potential for incidental findings, unnecessary treatment and risk of harm from cumulative exposure to [...]
Unnecessary testing for levels of vitamin D is costing Australia's healthcare system about $87 million a year and contributing to the sector's carbon footprint, according to Australian researchers. The researchers found in 2020, more than 4.4 million vitamin D tests were funded by Medicare, enough [...]
Wiser Healthcare has won the HSRAANZ Health Services and Policy Research Impact Award 2021 – see https://www.hsraanz.org/portfolio-items/barratt/ The Judges' Comments: Wiser Healthcare is an international research collaboration that has resulted in multiple research projects exploring sustainable healthcare systems. It is a powerful example of health [...]
Wiser Healthcare early career researcher, Dr Gustavo Machado, was the joint winner of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) 2021 Distinguished Investigator Award – New Investigator category – see https://www.hsraanz.org/portfolio-items/machado/
Wiser Healthcare early career researcher, Dr Sweekriti Sharma, has won one of three Australian Clinical Trials Alliance ‘Emerging Leader Investigator Awards’ for this paper from her PhD - https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/article/33/4/mzab129/6384520
November 2021 Wiser Healthcare welcomes the opportunity to provide our views on the Australian Department of Health's 10-year plan for Primary Health Care with the aim of strengthening the primary health care system to deliver the best health outcomes for Australians. [...]
Most of the major advances in health and life expectancy over the past couple of hundred years weren’t due to modern medicine, but to public health, political and industrial achievements, such as clean water supply, sewerage separation, having enough food and avoiding war.
Medical procedures that don’t help the patient, overdiagnosis, the ‘medicalisation of normal’… two doctors argue that it has to stop.
The Climate and Health Alliance, made up of Australian health and medical groups, has sent a letter to the prime minister calling for scaled up climate action to avoid escalating health threats.